The Insider - July 25

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The “Chelski” connection with Russia has deepened after Len Blavatnik acquired Premium TV, which manages digital image rights across football. The company looks after the Chelsea website, as well as those of 67 Football League clubs, and handles broadband rights to the Champions League for ITV.

Blavatnik snapped up Premium TV for an estimated £30 million, a snip considering that NTL, the company’s owner before it foundered, had ploughed £110 million into the business, and rumours persist that, now Blavatnik has moved from New York to London, he may want to copy Roman Abramovich, the Chelsea